And this is the Research and Design Institute of Moscow’s General Plan. A showcase institution, the very one that is supposed to embody “Sobyanin’s new approaches.”
http://genplanmos.ru/institute/management/dir_nigmatulina.html Look, they even appointed quite a director. And published plenty of articles about it: at last, Moscow has a high-ranking official who speaks English. Hooray. A breakthrough. What a waste of graduating from Princeton with honors, only to end up herding compliant state employees and staging the performance: "we came to the inauguration of our own free will and are celebrating an honest victory." They’d be better off dealing with traffic jams.